udev vs /dev

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Author: der.hans
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To: quatsch
Subject: udev vs /dev
moin, moin,

for new 'installs' in the past I've sometimes just copied old systems,
changed the hostname and started using the new drive.

Works great until recently. Now I'm running into a problem with udev. The
new drive ends up with nothing in /dev/, which causes lots of problems.

udev, if I understand this correctly, remounts /dev as /.dev, then mount a
tmpfs partition over /dev and then creates devs as needed.

When I'm copying the fs over what should I copy into /dev? Should I copy
/dev? That isn't working correctly. Should I copy /.dev? Do I need to copy
something to /.dev on the new drive?

This, of course, is on a debian box :). It's tracking testing/sarge.

ciao,

der.hans
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